Logged in but post appears as Anonymous

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jamesyong wrote: BTW, when I logged in, I didn't enable the "remember nx time i login blah blah" .

If you delayed more thatn 10 minutes, then you session has expired, and, because you didn't choose for auto login, you post went as Anonymous. That's normal behaviour.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Well, I am not sure why this happens.

I am sure I am already logged in and I didn't log out. I was submitting a bug report "Ghost data, after deleting and recreating database with defaults values." and my post appears as Anonymous.

Could it be I took too much time to write my post and the session timing has already expired by the time I submit my post. :roll: BTW, when I logged in, I didn't enable the "remember nx time i login blah blah" .

Regards,
James Yong


[originally posted on jforum.net by jamesyong]

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Hi Rafeal,
I have gone through the source code and yes, as you have said it is normal behaviour.

I am thinking if someone like me were to type a long post, that 10 minutes time frame can easily be exceeded. So I will probably extend the time a bit by modifying the cookie used for the automatic login.

I am rather new to open source. May I know how much customisation can I made to JForum?

Regards,
James Yong
[originally posted on jforum.net by jamesyong]

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If you want to have a bigger session timeout, you should edit the value of the tag "<session-timeout>" in the file WEB-INF/web.xml. Currently the value is 10. If you want to have a inactivity limit of 30 minutes, just put "30" there ( and don't forget to restart the servlet container after that )

You can change anyhting in jforum's source. I just ask you - and the license makes this explicit - to let the credits to the original author.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Thank you for the info
[originally posted on jforum.net by jamesyong]

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In JForum 1.0 - RC 3.2 (still using this anciency, mainly because I'm little afraid of the template stuff I've modified for myself) anonymous post also appears in restricted forums, if the poster previously was logged in and could access them; like he logs in, opens the restricted forum, delays till his session expires and then posts as anonymous in the restricted forum. This, of sourse, can be threated as normal behavior, too, but I think it's rather a bug: anonymous poster that can't post in the restricted forum can't post in the restricted forum, period.

Sorry to bother you folks in case if this is already fixed in current version.

P.S., have no free time now for JForum, so fix it by myself, sorry
[originally posted on jforum.net by Daniil]

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Daniil is alive

We have worked on some issue like that, but I'll check according to your description!!

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Can we use a hidden input in the form to keep the login and avoid the session timeout "bug"? I use this trick in some of my projects. And this issue occurred again in my post of "Topic is not saved in correct encoding in Traditional Chinese" post.
[originally posted on jforum.net by andowson]

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This is not a bug. If the user wants to avoid it, it must check "log me in automatically". What I can do is handle this in some way, like saving the data somewhere if the session expieres and, after the user logs in again, the system finish the posting action.. something like that.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]